Reminder: ‘Justified’ Starts In Less Than One Week

If you are anything like me, you spent the majority of your holidays parked in front of a television watching some combination of Law & Order, football, and strange movies with titles like The Dog Who Saved the Holidays (starring Dean Cain and Joey Lawrence!). In doing so, you probably also saw the commercial for the upcoming season of Justified a few dozen times, and it made you squee like teenage girl. “Hey, loogit,” you may have exclaimed. “It’s Raylan! And Boyd! And snakes! And guns! And, wait a second, is that the hot bartender from last season?!”

Even though Winona has left Raylan behind, he seems to be doing all right for himself. You’ll see a lot more of bartender Lindsey, both behind the bar and between the sheets. But she’s hiding a secret that could rock Raylan’s world. Speaking of secrets, Boyd seems to be even less trusting of his partners than usual this season. That may have something to do with the secret stash of cash he’s keeping from everyone — including Ava! [TV Guide]

We’re doing a couple different things this season. One is that we open with a flashback to what happened 30 years ago, loosely based on something that did happen around that time, called The Bluegrass Conspiracy. What we decided to do this season was have more of a mystery and, in a sense, a big fugitive pursuit. They don’t know who he is, so there’s that mystery to solve, and then it’ll go on from there.

And this, which is kind of a bummer, I guess:

I don’t think we get to see [Dewey Crowe] this season. Wynn Duffy (Jere Burns) is still around, he plays a big part this season. But if we’re lucky enough to see this through to its natural end — we’re looking at six seasons — Dewey will play a part. There are opportunities, because Arlo’s in prison this year, that we could have seen Dewey, but it’s like, we don’t want to just see Dewey, we want to have an episode about Dewey. And similarly with Dickie Bennett (Jeremy Davies), who is probably not going to appear this year.

So, to recap, here are some things we know about the upcoming season of Justified:

Raylan is banging the hot bartender, and she has some sort of devious secret.

Boyd appears to be hiding money and preaching and/or arguing with snake handlers.

There will be mysterious fugitives and I don’t even know what that means but I love it.

The big bad for this season is going to be a group of “hill people” who have been described as “a dangerous backwoods group of ruffians who aren’t all there.”

Wynn Duffy is back, which means lots of witty repartee between him and Raylan. Always a highlight.

Patton Oswalt will appear as Constable Bob, “a local constable who went to high school with Raylan and has been hired by the lawman to watch Arlo’s house,” who tells a single high school football story over and over like Al Bundy.

Jeremy Davies cut his own hair like a lunatic again to prepare for a season that he’s not even in, which is kind of awesome.

We will be recapping the show again this year, and we’ve got a bunch of fancy new badges that you can earn for participating in our discussions.

All of this begins happening on January 8 at 10PM, which by my calculations, is less than one week from today.

The only thing I really hope doesn’t happen is Boyd becoming some sort of revival preacher or whatever the hell it looks like he’s doing in the promos. He already had his whole born-again phase, and it didn’t exactly work out for him. If he’s just doing it to scam people, on the other hand, I’m all for it

I don’t understand how Kurt Sutter can stretch Sons Of Anarchy out for 7 seasons, when this show which is one of the least serialized dramas on cable, is only going to go 6. i feel like this thing could run 10 seasons no problem

That is outrageous that you would accuse me of watching ‘Law and Order’, Hallmark Christmas movies, football, and Justified promos–I didn’t watch any ‘Law and Order’ episodes at all.
BRING ON JUSTIFIED!!!1!!

I finally got to watch the first two seasons on blu-ray a few days ago, really enjoyed Raylan and Ava as a couple, was nice to see Joelle Carter smile (beautifully) as often as she did in the early days. Very much looking forward to season 4, rooting for Raylan and Lindsey. A whole season with neither Dewey nor Dickie is a rough deal, but I guess it makes sense since they’re both locked up. Plenty of Wynn will probably make up for it, though. And ideally Tim and Rachel will have more to do in S4 than in S3. More Limehouse would be cool too.

I have only watched one Justified, but read the book Raylan by Elmore Leonard and liked it so much, than my sister said, ” she had watched a show based on the character in the book.” It took me awhile to find Justified, and saw it was coming back in January. Waiting for January 8th!